United in Progress

A Message From Commissioner Lesley Briones

Serving as your County Commissioner is the honor of my life. I am grateful for the opportunity to serve and am energized by the progress we made during our first year in office.

My Precinct 4 team of more than 400 public servants and I have been honored to engage with so many of you, and we look forward to continuing to listen to, learn from, and serve you with heart, hustle, and higher standards.

Everything we do at Precinct 4 is grounded in our commitment to serving you and your family. Our mission is to advance opportunity and justice for all. Our top priorities are justice and safety, infrastructure, health, education and economic opportunity, and good government.

By improving public safety, strengthening flood resilience, maintaining our 1,600 miles of roads, 55 parks, and 10 community centers, and expanding access to healthcare and economic opportunity, we are improving the lives and livelihoods of the 1.2 million residents of Precinct 4.

Everything we do at Precinct 4 is grounded in our commitment to serving you and your families.

When we made significant investments in our justice system — raising salaries for law enforcement officers, diverting people from the system and connecting them with mental health resources, funding six additional criminal district courts to more effectively move cases and keep up with our growing population, and providing services to help justice-involved women get back on their feet — we thought about building communities where parents can safely raise their children.

When we kicked off our community planning efforts to renovate two major parks in the Precinct, expand mobility capacity of the Westpark Tollway, and make improvements across our sidewalks, trails, and green spaces, we thought about building connections not only between places, but also between people.

When we committed federal funding to increase access to free, high-quality child care, we thought about investing in our children to help them reach their full potential and assisting parents to get back to work.

And when we moved forward with Harris County’s climate action plan and broke ground on major flood resiliency projects, we thought about protecting Harris County so that it will continue being a great place to raise a family for decades to come.

With your partnership, I look forward to building upon our progress as we continue moving Precinct 4 forward. Together—we will make 2024 another amazing year!

All my best,

Lesley Briones

Harris County Precinct 4 Commissioner